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Convergence, Recorded Live In Denver
JazzSet visits Dazzle Restaurant & Lounge, presenting jazz in downtown Denver, for six original players and composers in one high-flying band, together for twenty plus years: Convergence. With all original music including a spoof on an imaginary 12-step support group for musicians who need to learn to love themselves.
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
Frank Wess Quintet At The Kennedy Center
At age 86, NEA Jazz Master Frank Wess has a ball leading a dream band with Terell Stafford on trumpet. Wess doubles on saxophone and flute, coming full circle to Washington, D.C., the city where he first took his studies seriously.
()Friday, December 26, 2008
Old Cats, New Lions Celebrate Woody Shaw
This past fall, the Festival of New Trumpet Music staged a major retrospective of Woody Shaw compositions at the Jazz Standard. Old Shaw bandmates backed three young-lion horn players with chops. Hear the group Woody Shaw Legacy Ensemble: Brass Knights, and get to know Shaw's music on JazzSet.
()Thursday, December 18, 2008
Ledisi, The Count Basie Orchestra In Concert
The Count Basie Orchestra, with Basie on piano, came roaring out of Kansas City during the Great Depression. Unrehearsed and unplugged, soul singer Ledisi shines with the famed Count Basie rhythm section — and, later, with the whole band.
()Thursday, December 11, 2008
Batiste And Ellis: New Orleans In New York
Onstage at Jazz Standard in New York, recent Juilliard graduate Jonathan Batiste is up first. The pianist leads off for John Ellis & Double-Wide with music from the new CD Dance Like There's No Tomorrow, this week on JazzSet.
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